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The Calidore String Quartet's "deep reserves of virtuosity and irrepressible dramatic instinct" and "balance of intellect and expression" have won them accolades across the globe and firmly established them as one of the finest chamber music ensembles performing today. The Calidore String Quartet - violinists Jeffrey Myers and Ryan Meehan, violist Jeremy Berry and cellist Estelle Choi-made international headlines as the winner of the $100,000 grand prize of the 2016 and inaugural M-Prize International Chamber Music Competition, the largest prize for chamber music in the world. Also in 2016, the quartet became the first North American ensemble to win the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and was named BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists-an honor that brings with it recordings, international radio broadcasts and appearances in Britain's most prominent venues and festivals. Most recently, in 2017, the Calidore was honored with the Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award. Spanish oboist Cristina Gó;mez Godoy combines technical brilliance with musical expressiveness, stunning virtuosity with artistic sensitivity and "miraculously effortless instinctiveness" . She regularly impresses audiences at major festivals and concert halls around the world with her profound musicality and color-rich sound. In 2012, at age 21, she joined the Staatskapelle Berlin as solo English horn. In 2013, Ms. Gómez was appointed principal solo oboist of the orchestra. Despite her young age, Cristina Gómez Godoy has already appeared as a soloist with major orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra in the Herkulessaal, with the Orchestra Sinfonica do Estado de São Paulo at Sala São Paulo, with the Filarmónica de Málaga in Spain, with the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra and with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim. More information...